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Cuando Era Puertorriquena (Texto Completo) [When I was Puerto Rican ]

By:
Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by:
Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
173

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
132

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
138

From a rippled zinc shack in rural Puerto Rico to "the better life" in a decaying Brooklyn tenement, Esmeralda Santiago's Puerto Rican childhood is one of sorcery, smoldering war between the sexes, and high comedy. Hers is a portrait of a harsh but enchanted world that can never be reclaimed.

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Conquistadora

By:
Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by:
Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
84

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
66

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
68

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente - both in love with Ana - she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just 18, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside....

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Almost a Woman

By:
Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by:
Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
12

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

The acclaimed author of
When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the theaters of Manhattan. "Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-room tenement apartment with seven young siblings, an inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At 13, Negi yearns for her own bed, privacy, and a life with her father, who remains in Puerto Rico.

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Casi una Mujer (Texto Completo) [Almost a Woman ]

By:
Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by:
Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
51

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
40

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
39

From a three-room apartment in Brooklyn, occupied by 10 family members, Esmeralda Santiago begins a journey that is both a triumphant struggle for identity and independence, and a mother's worst nightmare. Challenged by language barriers, cultural stereotypes, and the fiercely protective Mami, Santiago continues the rollicking ascent she began in
When I Was Puerto Rican. By day she perfects the role of Cleopatra at Performing Arts High School and interprets for the family at city welfare offices.

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El Amante Turco (Texto Completo) [The Turkish Lover ]

By:
Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by:
Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
67

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
51

Story

4 out of 5 stars
50

Esmeralda Santiago's memoir
Cuando Era Puertorriqueña continues with
El Amante Turco. At 21, Esmeralda moves from Brooklyn to begin a life with Ulvi, a domineering, condescending Turkish immigrant several years older. After years of abuse, Esmeralda finds the strength to earn a degree from Harvard and leave Ulvi, ultimately proving, "There will always be another train."

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The Turkish Lover: A Memoir

A Merloyd Lawrence Book

By:
Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by:
Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

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Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned for more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk", a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself.